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On December 15, the Christmas and New Year schedule in Xiangjiang began, and Fang Jianhui's "Lightning Dance" was officially released in Angel Cinemas and Anle Cinemas.

Not to be outdone, Golden Harvest released the strong film "Plan A" starring Fang Long to fight against it, this year's Golden Harvest is not like previous years, and there are many excellent works, the summer file of "Clever Tricks and Five Lucky Stars" has a strong performance, and the current "Plan A" is also remarkable, and the upcoming Spring Festival file also has the "Teppanyaki" of the comedy star Xu Guanwen.

What's more, the first two films helped Fang Long open up the Japanese market, and since then, the Japanese market has become a big box for Fang Long.

The Shaw Brothers Cinemas, which have always performed sluggishly, also painted two strong films in the second half of this year, namely the great director Li Hanxiang's "Burning the Old Summer Palace" and "Listening to Politics with the Curtain", both of which achieved a box office of more than 10 million, which ushered in the long-lost popularity of the Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

Since its release in North America in June, "Lightning Dance" has been painted all over the world, with Fang Jianhui's name and beautiful music, the box office has been popular, and the total global box office has exceeded 300 million US dollars, and it is expected to reach 350 million US dollars when the final painting is completed.

This achievement is a success worth celebrating for others, but when it comes to Fang Jianhui, it is Fang Jianhui's lowest-grossing Hollywood movie so far. However, if you include the sales of the original soundtrack, it is different.

The original soundtrack of "Lightning Dance" includes a total of ten songs, six of which are sung by Teresa Teng and four by Fang Jianhui, among which the title song "Flashdance... hat A Feeling" topped the billboard for six consecutive weeks, and Fong Kim-fai's 'Maniac' topped the top for three weeks.

The strong single has driven the strong sales of the album, and the soundtrack of "Lightning Dance" has sold more than 10 million copies, making it the second best-selling music album this year, second only to Fang Jianhui's god-level album "Thriller", which has sold 40 million copies worldwide! At $15 per album, the sales of the "Lightning Dance" album are about $160 million, and plus the box office of the movie, it is more than $500 million!

The story of "Lightning Dance" is average, and the selling point lies in the film's music, dance and the two leading actors. Needless to say, Fang Jianhui's current status in the minds of the people of Xiangjiang is 'admiration', no matter what he shoots, as long as it is not too bad, the people will buy it.

The heroine Sophie Masu, frankly speaking, has limited appeal in Europe and the United States outside of France, but her appearance is very in line with the aesthetics of the people of East Asia and Southeast Asia, and has always been liked by the people of these regions.

Previously, her "First Kiss" and "First Kiss 2" were warmly welcomed after being screened on Taiwan Island and Xiangjiang, and it can be said that she has long established her status as a goddess in these regions.

"It's an inspirational film, even though it's a bit old-fashioned, but for me, just enjoying the inspiring music and the dancing is worth the ticket price. ”

"The editing of the film is great, the lighting and cinematography are very particular, and every frame can be captured to make a great photograph. ”

After all, it is Fang Jianhui's old nest, and Xiangjiang's film critics are more restrained, and their evaluations are mainly positive. Three weeks later, the film was released in Angel Cinemas, but Anle Cinemas would continue to show it, at which point it grossed 24 million, slightly higher than the 19 million in "Plan A."

Angel Cinemas will take over "Yin and Yang Wrong" starring Lan Jieying and Tan Yonglin, and then it will be the Spring Festival, and then Angel Cinemas will attack with the old series of strong films "The Queen's Secret Order".

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On December 16, the 26th Grammy Awards announced the list of nominees, and as soon as the list was released, it caused unanimous exclamations from global public opinion.

Fang Jianhui in 1983, his achievements in pop music are completely unprecedented, and there is no one to come. The god-level album "Thriller" received 12 nominations in one fell swoop, breaking the previous record for the number of nominations for a single album.

And with the two phenomenal albums of "Thriller" and "Flashdance", Fang Jianhui personally won a record 16 nominations! Previously, the record number of nominations for a single Grammy was seven, and Fang Jianhui directly increased this number by more than two times!

He has been nominated for awards such as: Production of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocalist, Producer of the Year (Non-Classical), Best Male R&B Vocalist, Best R&B Song, Best Male Rock Singer, etc.

As the main singer of the "Flashdance" album, Teresa Teng also received four nominations, namely Record Of The Year - "Flashdance... hat A Feeling" by Teresa Teng, Album Of The Year - "Flashdance" by Fang Jianhui and Teresa Teng, Best Film and Television Music Album - "Flashdance" By Fang Jianhui, Teresa Teng, and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female - "Flashdance... hat A Feeling" by Teresa Teng.

It is worth mentioning that because there are too many nominations, in some awards, the 'sister and brother civil war' between Fang Jianhui and Teresa Teng was also staged. For example, 'Production of the Year', Fong Kim-fai's 'Beat It' and Teresa Teng's 'Flashdance... hat A Feeling was nominated at the same time, as were Album of the Year, Thriller and Flashdance. What's more, at the 'Song of the Year' award, there was also a civil war between Fang Jianhui and himself, his "Billie Jean", "Beat It" and "Maniac", all three songs were nominated at the same time!

The official award ceremony will be held on February 28 of the following year, because Fang Jianhui has been absent for two consecutive years before, this time, the Grammy organizers and CBS, which is responsible for the broadcast of the award ceremony, contacted Fang Jianhui early, and hoped that he would definitely attend in person at that time.

No way, Fang Jianhui is too popular, the majority of American people and people all over the world like to watch him too much, there is no him at the award ceremony, and there is a huge difference in influence and ratings. Not to mention anything else, with Fang Jianhui present, the broadcast rights can be sold for many more, the broadcast fee can be sold more expensive, and the advertising fee can also be charged a lot more, who will not be able to get along with the money?

This time, Fang Jianhui did not shirk, and happily said that he would definitely arrive on time. The sedan chair carries people, people give him so much face, and give him so many nominations that have never been seen before, if he plays a big name again, he will inevitably be too good at being a man.

After receiving his confirmation, CBS immediately announced the news and began a huge wave of campaigns, and the broadcaster's top management was optimistic that by then, the national audience will reach a new height.

In addition to the Grammys, Fang Jianhui is also dazzling on this year's billboard.

On the singles chart, he had three songs on the top spot during the year, namely "Billie Jean" (seven weeks), "Beat It" (four weeks), "Maniac" (three weeks), and if you add Teresa Teng's "Flashdance... hat A Feeling (6 weeks), four songs by the Fong Kim-fai siblings, dominated the Billboard singles for 20 weeks throughout the year!

However, even with Fang Jianhui's strong performance, he still failed to win the championship on the annual list of singles charts, and this year's singles of the year champion is Police Band's "Every Breath You Take", which has won the championship for eight consecutive weeks, no more, no less, just over Fang Jianhui's "Billie Jean" (seven weeks), making him the runner-up, and the third place is Teresa Teng's "Flashdance... hat A Feeling》。

On the album chart, Fang Jianhui's "Thriller" album led the way for 22 weeks, leaving others far behind! "Flashdance" also won the championship for four consecutive weeks, and the two albums of Fang Jianhui's siblings dominated the Billboard album chart for 26 weeks! The performance was so strong that others had no way to live!

The Billboard Awards ceremony has always been held at the end of the year, and unlike other music awards, the Billboard awards have always been based on data, who will win what awards, at a glance, there is no suspense, Fang Jianhui generally does not participate.

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On December 18, Yu Zhen, a talented girl in Xiangjiang, wrote an article about "musician Fang Gongzi" in her "Ming Pao" column.

The article sorted out the main things Fang Jianhui did this year, and she believes that unlike the film field in previous years, Fang Jianhui mainly made efforts in the field of music this year.

In previous years, Fang Jianhui helped Teresa Teng and Ye Qianwen write and record songs, and he himself did not have an album except for occasionally releasing a few singles at concerts. But at the end of last year, Fang Jianhui's debut solo album "Thriller" was released, and within a year, it won the album sales championship in more than 30 countries around the world, selling more than 40 million copies, and trampling countless record records under his feet. This is an unprecedented achievement that no one is expected to be able to beat for many years.

This year's Fong Kim-fai also tried a Cantonese album for the first time, but it was extraordinary as soon as it was released, and the soundtrack albums of "Blessing" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" both reached 8 platinum, both setting sales records for Hong Kong Records.

This year's Fang Jianhui also made two movies, "Lightning Dance" and "The Little Thing of First Love", but the author Ms. Yu believes that the music of these two movies exceeds the movie itself, and I feel that Jianhui above put more energy into music when making these two movies.

This also led to the stories of the two movies being a bit cliché, but the original soundtrack album achieved dazzling results, the "Lightning Dance" soundtrack not only sold more than 10 million, but also the hit of next year's Grammys, and the "First Love" album set off a storm of Nakamori's famous dishes in Japan, with sales of more than 7 million copies in Japan and 10 million copies worldwide, raising the Japanese album sales record to a height that others dare not imagine.

The two movies also have a common feature, that is, they are both told from the perspective of the heroine, the heroine's role is obviously heavier than the male protagonist, and Fang Jianhui, the male protagonist, serves to set off the heroine in the film. For this reason, Ms. Yu once again sighed at Fang Gongzi's Jia Baoyu temper, and she did her best for every 'sister', even if she was ugly or weakened.

The total sales of the albums that Fang Jianhui participated in in a year exceeded 60 million copies, which is an achievement that countless musicians have been unable to achieve in a lifetime, or even a lifetime, but this is not the real strength of Fang Jianhui, what Fang Jianhui really recognizes is that these albums span English, Japanese and Cantonese!

Ms. Yu finally sighed that ordinary adjectives were no longer enough to describe Fang Jianhui's achievements, and words such as 'genius' and 'miracle' seemed weak, and she didn't know how to describe it.

Yu Zheng's article summarized Fang Jianhui's past year very well, and it had a great repercussion among the people of Xiangjiang.

After receiving Ms. Yu's authorization, Shirley wittily translated the article into various languages and published it in major newspapers in various countries, attracting a new wave of admiration from people all over the world for Fang Jianhui.